Father's Day Ideas

Today on the High Tech Texan Show:

• Last-minute Father's Day gifts you should consider buying dear ol' dad
• Why Texas is now the hotbed for self-driving ride-share car services
•  The best photo editing apps to make your pics look professional

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:06):
Is Michael Garfi.

Speaker 2 (00:07):
Michael Garfield.

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Michael Garfield's joining.

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In the high Tech Texan.

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Speaker 3 (00:48):
Depending on when exactly you are listening to the show,
might I be one of the first to say Happy
Father's Day. I may be the only person who tells
you Happy Father's Day. Kids, Look at the calendar. Should
you have the luxury of still having a father present

(01:09):
and in your life? Get on the horn, even if
you have to send a text. That's what the kids
do now. Wish good old Dad. Ah, Happy Father's Day.
One of the things that we are going to talk
about today. How are yes I am a father?

Speaker 2 (01:27):
No.

Speaker 3 (01:27):
I have yet to hear from one of my three kids.
I know it's coming there. They're very good about that.
I have already contacted my father, so much so that
I came to visit my father as we do this
radio show in the great city of Dallas, Texas, where
I am from and where my parents live. Taking the
show on the road normally in h Town in Houston, Texas.

(01:51):
Why not visit your dad and your parents on Father's
Day weekend, no matter where you are, no matter how
you are listening. I do thank you for tuning in
to the twenty third year that we have done a
Father's Day show on the High Tech Deection Show all
over the state of Texas. Yes, in Dallas Talk Radio
eleven ninety in San Antonio, WAI, the Big Stick twelve

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hundred AM, and of course the flagship nine to fifty
AM in Houston. Also, this didn't happen twenty three years
ago when we started. We are on the iHeartRadio app
because technically apps didn't even exist other than appetizers on
menus at restaurants. Twenty three years you go when I
started this. Thank you for downloaded the app. You can

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name Miguel Garf. Everything but Mike, just stay away from
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(02:58):
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(04:24):
dot com. So we do start this at Father's Day Gifts.
If the show is aired on the weekend on random
different times. Obviously, if it's a Saturday, you've got a
few hours to go. If it's on a Sunday, you
better figure out something. And obviously, if it's Sunday, you're
not getting Dad an in person Chick fil A card
or a Cabo Bob's card because they closed on Sunday.

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But you can go online and get Dad some sort
of a gift card, an e gift card. And this
to me is a low hanging fruit. I talk about
this all the time. Why not get a gift card?
Probably because I like cards, and this is my show,
and I know what I like, and I recommend what
I like and what I use, and sometimes would I
give gift cards? Let me go shoping in buying things

(05:11):
for what I want. Maybe I don't want a coffee
mug because I don't drink coffee. Maybe I don't want,
you know, a sleeve of golf balls, probably because I
have fourteen dozens sitting in my garage. Let me shop
what I want to shop. I love clothes, me loves
I like fashion. I like me some style. I shop
for myself. No one shops for me. Number one, I'm

(05:35):
not married, that's what. But I like getting my own clothes.
I have my favorite stores. My kids and my friends
know what stores I like. Maybe I'll get a new
gift card. It's not Does anybody find this impersonal? And
phil this come on, talk to me over here. You know,
I don't want to sit here for on. I don't
want to celebrate my Father's Day weekend talking to a wall,
talking to Callum, which, by the way, Callum is whatever

(05:58):
the producers of the show looking through the last here, Callum,
we actually no, sorry about that now. I'm so used
to saying looking for the glass. That's where my mind
is right now. You were back in the Houston studio.
Why I'm in Dallas right now? Callum? You were not
a dad. I met your dad, Callum, remember that I
did did I get? I gave you a bottle of
bourbon when your dad was in down what a few

(06:18):
years ago, and either you solely or you and your
dad killed that bottle of bourbon within like two hours. Happy,
happy Father's Day from that thing. I don't want to
make this about me, but I am making about me.
I love bourbon. My birthday last February, I got, I
get a ton of birthday gifts. I got about nine,

(06:41):
ten eleven bottles of bourbon. I got nothing else. People
know what people knew what I'd like then, and I
like experimenting and playing around with new bourbons. Whatever you
want to get Dad, try to figure out what dad does,
what dad likes, what dad needs, what a dad wants
it to dad needs, Because as I have taught my kids,

(07:04):
there is a difference between needing and wanting. And I
think we don't need a lot of things. We need
air to breathe, maybe they need some water, maybe need
some protein. We want a lot of things. I would
like a lot of things. I'd like my own airplane.
I'd like to be retired. I'd like to not do

(07:24):
the show anymore. Nope, I'd do it because of my
love for you find out what Dad really kind of wants,
and it may be something so small. It may be
a subscription to an app. Maybe Dad wants to read
the New York Times. Maybe Dad wants a subscription. Maybe

(07:44):
Dad does not no longer subscribe to the newspaper like
the Dallas Morning News, like my parents still get the
actual paper. But maybe get him an online version, doesn't
cost too much, doesn't have to be anything big. Speaking
of big, later in the show, Oh, I will be
doing my weekly review of What's Michael Driving, where I
get to test drive cars for the past fifteen years,

(08:06):
and yes there I've been in a nice one or
two for the past week or two. Some evs also,
So that's what I will talk about.

Speaker 4 (08:13):
Uh.

Speaker 3 (08:13):
What we'll also hit over here some of the topics
that I've people have been emailing about, or I've been
seeing the news. Hey, Houston in Dallas. If you're not
ready for it, or if you've never tried it, look
up in the air, look up at the sky. It's
not a bird, it's not a plane, but it's a
drone and it's probably carrying some groceries because drone delivery
in Houston in Dallas are happening right now. I will

(08:36):
tell you what company. And you've heard of this company,
You've probably shopped to this company. I'll tell you what
company is doing it. And I'm gonna tell you if
anybody has ever had drone delivery service, definitely want to
hear from you. I I've seen them, I've done TV
stories on them. I've actually never had it done to
my I've never delivered one to my house. It'self three
four six two nine eight three nine two six. When

(08:59):
we come back, Yeah, I'm gonna talk. I'm gonna talk
about the Doomer Delude, but I'll also talk about self
driving cars because Texas is now the state that is
seemingly half if you have a self driving vehicle for
a ride sharing service. Texas is like the place there's
like wars are going on. How many companies are doing

(09:19):
all that? I'm another tack texting specially. What are the

(09:43):
great things that I enjoy on Father's Day weekend? It's
the US Open golf tournament. It's it's a tradition, well
some like any other, turn onto the TV. Make It's
it's early summer. It's just always hot and ass in Texas.
So gentally you want to be inside with a coldie.

(10:04):
I'm a golfer. I like watching golf on TV. But
it's a Father's Day weekend always in the US Open.
This yay, sitting in Dallas as a Dallas boy. Scottie Scheffler,
Let's bring it? Can you do it? Can you make
three of your four majors wins? What a year you
are having? Jordan Speith, love you, buddy, both of my
ut X alumnis one of them, bringing home and Opemett

(10:27):
in Pennsylvania. Tough course, tough course. So if you're enjoying
the US Open, if you're joining golf, you're joined Father's
Day weekend. Thank you so much for joining us. Michael
is my name. It is called Michael Garfield. That is
called the High Tech Texan Show. I am actually in
Dallas visiting and hanging with my parents to celebrate Father's
Day weekend. Hopped over to the iHeartRadio Dallas World headquarters.

(10:52):
First time I've been there. I'm from Dallas. I haven't
lived in Dallas here for three years. I'm based in
Houston now. Obviously I do a lot of my shows
out of the iHeart Euston office. My first time in
the iHeart Dallas office. Impressive Amy, Stacy and all the
other gang who I met. It's pretty good. I am
the new I trying to make me the face and
the voice of iHeart Dallas. I'll take it. I'll take

(11:14):
It's near the galleria, near the galleria where I had
my right I had my bomb at the Weston Galleria,
probably Dallas, folks. I don't get to the galleria much,
obviously to more in Dallas. I don't gohead get up
to Dallas a ton ton ton here, but I'm driving
up like a gosh man. That was my Uh, what's
about my prom date? Tracy newsomblad should me listen to

(11:38):
the show? Trace? Remember that night? It did? I'm I'm
sure you did. Probably forget it. I digress phone number
here if you want to chime in, ask me questions,
last minute Father's Day gifts. Maybe you're nearing down a phone,
a set of headphones, ear pods. I'm at three four six,
two nine eight, three nine to six. That's how you

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get me if you're in the Austin area. That was
me earlier this week on Fox seven Good Day Austin,
which I do each Monday, and I brought in four
or five different Father's Day gift ideas, one of which
was a set of headphones inexpensive. I am not the

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guy who is going to suggest the most expensive item
in the room. If they're headphones, for example, active noise
canceling headphones, yes, I can go tell you how to
get a three hundred to five hundred dollars pair of headphones. Okay, good,
but you're gonna get justice as solid, if not sometimes

(12:43):
even better product in that category for cheaper. I found
a pair of seventy or eighty dollars headphones, and if
you want, I'll tell you right now it's this one
was from one more the number one more, one more,
and they make a line of headphones and earbuds. I
like these because they're very they're comfortable when you put

(13:06):
them over your ears. Okay, these aren't the ear I
mean the one. The ones I'm suggesting are over the years.
Because Dad sometimes just wants to shut out the world.
Right Dad's on an airplane, Dad's got grandkids or maybe
even kids. Right now, it's like I don't want to
hear the app and active noise canceling. They're very light,
come in a really nice zip case. They fold up
in a unique way that they're they fold up relatively small,

(13:30):
seventy or eighty bucks. They got active noise canceling. They
hold a charge very long, the ones I've been playing with.
And so again, that's just one suggestion. If you're looking
for a dad gift earpot, earbuds or some sort of
a headset. It also, I don't there is a have
you is anybody I'm gonna pay this off about drones?

(13:52):
Drones are fun. Dad may be into drones. Dad may
be into flying drones. Man, they got cameras and drones.
Drone delivery has been bantered about for many years. There
has been so many tests, a lot of it here
in our great state of Texas. Whether it's from Amazon,
whether it's for other other you know, retail outlets, it's

(14:18):
here and so much so. There is a big story
you may have heard of called Walmart. Any anyway, Walmart
they are now expanding its drone delivery services to five
more cities here in the US, one or two of
which now Dallas and Houston. And if you're listening in Bentonville, Arkansas,

(14:41):
where Walmart is based, yeah they're there too. Walmart said
it's made more than one hundred and fifty thousand drone
deliveries since it launched its service about four years ago.
Interesting because anecdotally looking up in the skies, I have
never seen a random drone delivery. Now I've seen a
drone delivery because at a press conference, I've been invited

(15:03):
to these companies that are going to show off how
the product works and everything, and I think it's neat.
But that was a planned one. Has anybody even seen
if anybody's actually had something delivered via drone? Let me
know how it works. Was it cool? Did the ice
cream melt? How quick did it go to your front door,
your back door if you weren't home? What happened? Were

(15:25):
you scared? Some of them a porch pirate was gonna
was gonna steal it? Those are issues that I know
a lot of people have about drone delivery. Walmart already
does drone delivery here in Dallas where I am right now,
and now it's happening to Houston too. Thing is, though,
if you want to try it, you have to sign
up on its drone delivery partner service, not Walmart per se.

(15:48):
It's called wing Wiing. If you go to wing let
me give you the website over here. It's Wing. It's
just Wing dot com, slash walmart if you want to
and pretty cool. You know I'm on the website. Now
here's a drone. Here's a shot of a drone. Shot
of the app delivering. It talks about Dallas, talks about
Houston specifically, and I mentioned those because that's my radio audience.

(16:09):
And you can sign up through Wing. You can put
your home address in to see if you are eligible
to have drone delivery. Drone delivery in a little as
thirty minutes. I'm trying to think when I would use it.
And again, maybe I am of different milk because I'm

(16:31):
an og all right. I didn't grow up with drone delivery.
I didn't grow up with door dash and Uber eats
and everything. You see kids pull up a chair because
it's Uncle Garfy time. If I needed anything at the store,
we get a little closer. I'm gonna whisper to. We
got in our cars and we drove to the store.

(16:54):
Unbelievable concept. Parked the car, went up and down the aisles,
bought a little something, and we came home. I don't
want to rag on people who use these delivery services
food deliver service. How lazy are you? People? Get your
freaking car, get out, go around the corner, get yourself
freaking burger, and didn't come home. Nowadays, man, no time,

(17:20):
gotta have it, door dash, you gotta have it uber
needed and now we have to have delivered via drunk
missing a dinner ingredient, order it and get it. I
will tell you this. I make fun of this. I
actually probably could have used this service. A few days ago,
I'm at home. I'm in Houston, and I was making
turkey tacos, one of my favorite things to make. Tough

(17:41):
to get anything healthier, healthier turkey ninety nine percent one
percent fat turkey tacos. And I'm looking around. I'm thinking,
I don't have any tortillas. Had a buddy of mine
he was coming over to I'm thinking, oh man, it
need some tortillas. I didn't really have time. I'm sitting
there getting ready to make the turkey meat he's coming
over over. I live half a mile from the Whole Foods,

(18:05):
I live a mile from an HGB. I just couldn't
find the time get it all together within ten minutes
to get tortias. Actually, I could have and I should
have even tried drone delivery if it's available to me.
So you know what I did. I texted my buddy, Hey,
by the way, stop at the store, when you come
over here and give me some tortillas boom. He was

(18:27):
my Uber Eat driver. Let me know if you have
used it? Would you use it? What's the cost? What
I mean, I went over some negatives. It's averaging ninety
eight to one hundred degrees already right now and early
to mid June. I want some ice cream. I'm gonna
let a drone deliver that to me. By the time

(18:51):
it goes up, down, over and sits on my porch,
it ain't happening. Milk refrigerator, things that could spoil. I
don't see that happening. If I'm not home, my neighbor
sees or somebody sees a drone come down deliver man.
That is just ring the bells. Open the door, man.
I'm inviting Porge pirates to come. And it's a number
of things that I need to see and get proven

(19:14):
to me whether I want to use it. All right,
when we come back, what is your inbox looking? And
I want you to think about this. Got a quiz
for you. Okay, I'm gona let you think about four
five minutes. What is the oldest email that you have
currently in your email inbox? Does it be the oldest
email that I have that I disfigured that. We'll talk

(19:35):
about cleaning out your mailbox. Tips on that much more,
Eco bartone Hi tip.

Speaker 4 (19:39):
That se.

Speaker 3 (19:57):
Talking about Father's Day gifts, and I actually start the
show talking about getting Dad a gift card or an
E gift card. If it's if you're listening right now
and it's Sunday, actual Dad's Day and you're forgeating, you're like, Oops,
didn't know it's Dad Day. Need to get him something.
I mean, there's so many websites and retail stores and
whatever you can. You can go online and you can
order a gift card and have an email to Dad,

(20:20):
I mean, and then order things online. That's an E
gift card I am going to give away. How about
me giving away a Father's Day gift right now, an
actual gift card right now, caller number ten. Give you
a special phone number seven one three two one two
five nine five zero. Dad, you are getting a twenty
five dollars gift card to Cabo Bob's a restaurant, and

(20:42):
if you're in Dallas, sucks for you. You don't have any
Cobo Bobs, But Houston there's four of them. Austin when
you got about eight of them. San Antonio, you got one.
Love Cobo Bob's fast, convenient, go through the line. You
tell them what you want on your tacos. First of all,
you got five different tortilla joices that you're they're gonna
make right in front of you. Immediately, got a little cilantro,
You got a little red chili, doesn't matter. You put

(21:04):
and they take a they take a Kamata joe. You know,
one of those smoker devices like a big green egg.
That's where they make their meat, their chicken, their steaks,
cook to smoke to perfection. You can make tacos that
you can make one of the world's largest burritos. You
tell them what you want in it. You get some caso,
you get some chips. You call her number ten. We

(21:24):
got one. Stop gone. You just want a twenty five?
Do I hope it's a calum is it? Is it
a dad? It's a dude? Okay, hopefully you're a dad,
whoever you are, Mister Winter sir, you got a twenty
five dollar give car to Cabo Bob's my favorite. Go
go check that out. We do continue the High Tech
Texan show Father's Day Weekend special on the road show

(21:44):
from Big d Up in Dallas, hitting the Old, the
Haunting Ground, staying with my parents, strapped on the running shoes.
Early Saturday morning, ran by my old high school, WT Whites,
long arms, looking good man, glad the old high School
is still running. So wherever you are, a happy Father's Day,

(22:08):
trying to get to your life in order. Summertime is
a good time to actually look at your business, look
at your processes, and clean things up. Maybe it's your garage,
maybe it's your inbox. I was looking at my inbox.
In my inbox on my desktop Major one, I have

(22:29):
nine I must have cleared it out. I had nine
hundred and forty six emails in my inbox. They're all read.
I've read them all, but for some reason, either I
don't delete them, I forget about them the next day too,
and they just go down and down and down and
down and out. I have over fifteen thousand items in
I deleted my trash box that for some reason, I'm

(22:50):
just holding on just in case I need to go
find it. I need to dump that at some point.
Your inbox and especially the one on your phone. My
phone I keep very clean. I mean I have generally
have no more than four or five six in my phone.
Phones have much more limited space. So if you've got
some time, just a little thing for you to do,

(23:11):
little summer cleaning, clean up your inbox if you like me.
Every time I get an email, it comes to my desktop.
That's my main I want everything on my desktop at home.
Oh by the way, obviously I get it on my phone,
which is immediate, which is what I like, and that's
how we communicate. But then I delete it on my phone. However,

(23:33):
I always have a backup on my inbox at home. Yes,
you can sync them together. If not, obviously you have to,
you know, clean up your inbox one by one on
your desktop and on your phone. But what's the oldest
email in your inbox? Is anybody checked? And look scroll down?
If you're driving, don't do this, I looked. I am

(23:56):
an idiot. I have no clue why I've kept a
few so much. I mean, I delete all of them.
But of my almost one thousand emails, I have an
email forgot who was from. I don't even know if
it was even important, certainly not. Now I have an
email from January of twenty eleven. Why in the world
do I have a fourteen and a half year old email.

(24:17):
I don't know. That's why I got this whole thing.
It's just let's give tips on how to clean out emails.
It makes no sense. So here's my to do list
for me. I need to clean my inbox up. Let
me see if I can get it under I don't
know two hundred. I don't need to keep all these things,
if not categorize them. I have so many folders on there,
all right, But I'm not a hoarder. But if anybody's

(24:41):
ever seen my garage at home I have it's a
two car garage that I could barely fit one car in.
And it's really because, yes, I'm a sentimentalist. I've got
a lot of my stuff that my parents said, I
want this out of our house. It's going to your house,
like all my high school yearbooks and everything. But I
also do get a ton of gear. I have to
test all these products, and I just throw them in

(25:02):
my garage. I also have closets filled. I literally could
open a Best Bide like store. I either need to,
and a lot of these companies they don't want the
stuff back now. A lot of the gear that I
have probably five years old. Some of the most absolute
things obsolete things in technology. Hey, something gets over two
years old in technology, it is Ova, it is old.

(25:23):
I mean I got phones literally, I still have some
of the original flip phones from Nokia. Maybe I'm an
open a museum one day. I have got not one,
but two untested robotic lawnmowers. Did you know? You know
there's robotic vacuum planners and mops. You know that there's

(25:44):
robotic lawnmowers. I'm getting ready to test one of the mouse.
I need to do a TV story for my TV segments.
Give me about two weeks and I'm going to test
one of these robotic lawnmowers. That actually is a very
good Father's day idea. If your dad mows the lawn
or still mow's lawn. And my dad is in his
eighties and we've always had a riding lawnmower in Dallas.

(26:07):
We have we had a relatively big yard, still do heat.
I think he still mows. I need a check, and
I feel bad. He should not be mowing the lawn.
He needs to hire a service. But why not get
a robotic lawnmower? If it actually works things, I'm gonna
test it. These things are not cheap. They're anywhere for
one thousand and fifteen hundred two thousand dollars. At the

(26:30):
end game, if it saves money from if it saves
it'll definitely save you time because when I mowed my lawn,
when I mowed that lawn when I was a kid,
that was that was a two to three hour experience
riding up and down the lawnmower and then then been
bagging everything my homes. Over the past thirty years, when
my kids were going up, I really enjoyed mowing lawns.

(26:53):
Is a Texas kid, I didn't love the heat. I
still don't love the heat. But I grew up mowing
my grandparents lawn, which was nearby in Dallas. I grew
up mowing my lawn. I grew up, and I taught
my kids and I made them. If lack of a
better term, I guess I did learn out to mo lawns.
But I kind of enjoyed mowing lawns. I live in

(27:13):
a house now that I don't have a big lawn,
and I really don't need a mo lawn. I have
them all lawn mowing service, and don't laugh, I really
do miss mowing lawns. I missed the solid solidarity, the solitude.
It's probably the one time ever that I'm not taking
phone calls because I can't hear the phone calls because
of the lawn mighter. And I just sit there and
think going back to it. Right now, I can rip

(27:34):
out a lawn chair, have a nice cold brewer, tow
or tend watching my robot mow my lawn. I will
give you the P by P by the end of June.
I will put the link on my website, high tech
Texting dot com. But if anybody has these robotic lawns,
apparently they work just like robotic vacuums. You charge it,
you set it up, you map out, it maps out

(27:57):
your lawn, you download the app, looks at the go
around the trees, goes around the sprinkler systems, and didn't
whatever like that. I'm very anxious to see how it works,
and so that's one of the only things. So if
it works, I actually may give that to my dad
for a post Father's Day gift. I probably should have
done tested it out a month ago and brought it
here and given them this weekend. Alas I did. Phone

(28:18):
number HI one more time three four six twenty nine, Texan.
The name is Michael Michael at high Tech Texan dot com.
What a little somber note. And I got an email
over here from a company touting something that I realized
I talk about dads. I appreciate my dad still with us,

(28:39):
still kicking here. What if you've lost your dad and
it's Father's Day? And for those of you who do
not have a father right now, I seriously my thoughts
are with you. I hope your thoughts of DABD are
with you too. But how would you like to honor
dad on Father's Day if you've lost him?

Speaker 6 (28:58):
That story I Taxing Shows.

Speaker 3 (29:16):
Final segment this first hour of the High Tech Texting Show.
Michael Garfield is the name. Appreciate reading all your emails,
listening to you, got some Father's Day gift ideas for you,
got an interview next hour. If you're interested in search
engine optimization, A lot of people have websites. How do
you optimize it? So when you go to Google or

(29:37):
search somewhere. How do you optimize that we have an
expert coming on and about that about forty minutes from
right now, mentioned this kind of a tease before the
show in a little somber Let's bring it down on
a very special episode of Punky Brewster. Here's a very
special segment on the High Tech Texting show. This is
Father's Day weekend. I am in Dallas right now. I'm

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visiting and hanging out out with my dad and my
mom too, and two of my three kids happen to
be in Dallas this weekend. So it's great to be
able to spend it not only with a generation above me,
but also a generation below me. But there's many of
you who have lost your dads, and I know this
this weekend, this holiday can be difficult to celebrate. How

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do you still think of dad? Do you honor dad?
This was brought up to my subject, to my attention,
and the reason I'm thinking about it is I got
an email earlier this week. It's you know, I get
story pitches all the time from company. So there's a
press release. If you're interested about this. This is I'm
not This is not a commercial I swear I don't
know anything about this company other than what I'm reading

(30:41):
in this press release. And I'm not selling this company
just but it was very interesting. There are there is
a company who transforms cremated remains into a collections of
stones that allow them to I guess, literally hold their

(31:05):
loved ones. Again. I'm trying not to be morbid over here.
I'm really trying to be sinceers for those of you
who have lost a loved one. I mean, I actually
let's expand this and not just to ads and they
have been cremated. Where are there? Where are there remains?
Are they in your house? Or are they in a

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just not whatever they call the mausoleum, not a crematorium.
But you know, when I'm thinking of here, but if
you taking the ashes and you've spread them over their
favorite golf course, favorite beach, their favorite place overlooking mountains
or sunrises or sunset. So I'm reading this thing, I'm like,

(31:50):
is this It's just I don't I'm not big into
death really just you know, I don't really think about it.
I don't want to talk about it. It's just, you know,
different subject for some. But there is this company. It's
called hearting stone that cakes cremated remains and solidifies them

(32:15):
into these stones. And I'm looking at the website. I
won't even give the website. I'm not promoting this thing,
but is this odd? Has anybody done something like this?
Not even that I even want to open the phone
lines to this, but it's a way to remember. It's
a solidification service for the In return, they return the

(32:38):
full amount remains in an average of about forty to
eighty stones. And I'm looking stones. These look like those
stones that you see in these little calming ponds. They're
very they look smooth. Why do they do this? And
actually I don't want to question it the entire because

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I'm going to take it at their work. How do
I really know that Dad is in those stones? Ape color, texture?
They say each collection is uniquely beautiful and solidified, which
is an alternative to ash. There is a here's the

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crazy thing, which I appreciate, But there's a anytime money
back guarantee. What okay, I want the ashes back? How
are they going to do that? Anyone? Calum, I know
you're my over under take a guess. At the cost

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of solidifying someone's ashes into forty to eighty stones anyone,
anyone which, by the way, while you're thinking, they send
a collection kit to retrieve your loved one's ashes. You
send the ashes to their lab. They solidify the ashes
into stones. It's interesting. There's a quote. Stones are in

(34:07):
quotes right now, and then they ship the stones back
to your house. A lot of five star reviews over here, anyone.
If you guessed fifteen hundred dollars keep going up, you're
way low. If you order now, and I don't even
know if there's a promotion code. Twenty five hundred dollars

(34:30):
is the process? Twenty five hundred dollars turned to see?
This is where if we had a budget at iHeartRadio
and we had we have the rights to allow to
play music, so we can license them, but we don't.
This is where we do Eello's turn to stone, right,
twenty five hundred dollars. Would anybody do this? I just

(34:54):
not a commercial. I wouldn't do this. I'm not getting agree,
madd I don't know if any of my family's getting cremated.
We we're not a cremating type of people. But if
you are just throwing it out there anyway, Happy Fathers
Day people, twenty three years I've been doing this. I

(35:14):
think the first time I've ever brought brought the tone
down to that such is the world of technology, consumer lifestyle.
That's what you go through lots to talk about. Dextur
We're gonna give something away maybe, but have you driven by,
or seen or driven in one of these ride sharing
cars that does not have a driver? You hear about them,

(35:36):
You hear what's happening in Los Angeles right now where
wai mo. That's another one of these robotaxi type of things.
Several of them have been burned. And by the way,
people have been asking if if my kids, who do
live in LA, if they have seen these quote unquote riots,
They don't they live in LA. They don't even know
their Eclians going on. Do you not believe anything that

(35:56):
the menia says unless the position in then that's the
simple as waymos are being burned? Why are they being burned?
But I will tell you why. Our great state of Texas,
particularly Austin. But I'm not I'm don't use the fact
that they're not already in Dallas and Houston and San Antonio,
but particularly Austin. This is the hotbed this is and
I'll tell you why why the state of Texas legally

(36:20):
is the hotbed of why so many companies are rolling
out and testing their self driving, no driver driverless vehicles
in the state of Texas. Saw fear this past weekend
when I was in Austin. We'll talk about that and
also a few more products I'm getting questions for here
on an email. My name is Michael Garfield. Father's Day weekend.
Here on the High Tech Texan shows.

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Halfway through the show, almost halfway through the month of June,
which means we're halfway to happy hour. No matter how
you break it down, it is Michael Garfield. That's right,
sixty minutes down, sixty minutes to go. You're celebrating this
weekend Father's Day, US Open weekend. If you're watching golf,
chasing the rain, whatever you're doing, I do thank you

(37:55):
for making an hour or two to listen to this show,
whether I've Houston, Dallas, San Antonio, whether recorded or podcasted,
which we will do. Thank you Callum Red for posting
this on the old iHeartRadio. Just look for high Tech
texts and you can listen to all of my previous
shows and all fifteen years you can find of my

(38:18):
car reviews. Each week I do get to test drive
a car. I rolled up here. By the way, I'm
doing the show from Dallas this weekend, where my dad
and my parents are, and two of my kids actually
here this weekend, so I'm trying to make a little
family affair out of my Father's Day weekend. Drove up
here in a brand new Nissan Frontier mid size truck,

(38:44):
the Pro four X version, the Pro four X Nissan Fun.
I didn't need really to schlep anything in a truck.
It's a mid sized truck, so easy to maneuver, easy
to part, work done, guzzle, a lot of gas, a

(39:06):
lot of opportunities, a lot of ideas. If you're interested
in that, but pretty rugged. I like the front fescia,
this new grill, it's a new bumper design. You look,
it's like, oh, that's not the Nissan Frontier that I
normally see. Love the oe afterburn orange paint, not burnt orange,
but pretty close. Got some meat cameras, off road cameras.

(39:30):
Six foot bed which is nice, dude, is about seven
thousand pounds or so. They really did a good job
of upping the infotainment. The touch screen about a twelve
twelve point three inch touch screen, wireless Android Auto obviously,
which I like. I don't care about iPhones, and it's
got the Pro four x pro X badging. It's nice.

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So thank you for Nissan to get him. Every week.
I do test drive some of these babies, and they
are They're pretty cool. So if you're you're interested. I
don't work with the dealerships. I work directly with the manufacturers,
so I'm not going to tell you a Nissan dealership
to go shop at. But if you want to hear
one of my almost one thousand, fifteen years on a
weekly basis, I obviously sometimes I get two per week.

(40:14):
I've matriculated and multiplied and figured the total number. But
in fifteen or so years, I have test driven over
one thousand cars. I don't even own a real car. Really,
I test drive one each week. They do not pay me.
I just roll with the people. So you can actually
take it because I can rag on my vehicles and
I don't have to rag on my vehicles. So happy
Father's Day if dad wants a car. Speaking of cars,

(40:36):
I was at Austin last week. Yes, apparently I am
driving all over this state of Texas this month. So
in Austin last week. And it's interesting because on a
relatively regular basis, certainly if you're downtown Austin, you see
self driving cars. And if you've never seen a self
driving car, the first time you see it gets a
little freaky dki. It's like Ghostbusters, who are driving that thing? Now?

(40:59):
It's you notice these because they have radar, light ar,
physical things sticking off the top of the vehicle, on
the sides of the vehicle, so we can quote unquote
see use GPS map itself out watch for pedestrians, looks
at the lights, red light, green light everything. They are

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pretty smart. And Waimo there were a number of wes
Weimo launched late last year or something. You actually can
order them through the Uber to experience a self driving
car and sit in the back. Kind of cool to
need experiment if you want to. People have a lot
of trepidation about it. Totally understand letting big brother, actually

(41:42):
your big sister drive for you a lot of Waymo's,
which is fine. I did not see, but this weekend
there was a report, ironically on South Congress Avenue where
I was walking on Sunday. I should have kept my
eyes open for the debut of a brand new company
that is not even starting to let passengers ride in it.

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But it's happening later this week. Your good friend in
Austin resident, Elon Musk, is launching a Tesla Robotaxi for
the public. But they were rolling out on South Congress.
I got back on Monday or Tuesday, and I saw
on Twitter or x which Elon Ostill owns video of

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seeing these vehicles in the wild up and down Congress Avenue.
I'm like, oh my god, I must have seen that,
which I didn't even notice it. I mean, they're not flashy,
they're not yellow, they're not bright, they're just regular looking
Tesla like cars. And it is Tesla and they are
rolling out self driving robotaxis to the public June twenty second.

(42:47):
They're very excited about it, and actually a lot of
people are excited about right now. They're going to have
about ten to twenty of the Tesla model y SUVs.
They're going to work in limited areas, which is pretty
much downtown Austin. They're gonna say ROBOTAXI on the side
of it, which I did, which I saw in the videos.
No human driver. There's no human driver whatsoever. Now we
can talk and this is just this has been my

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fodder over the past year or two. Would you trust
and would you ride in the back seat of these things?
There's probably a good number of my listeners right now
who have already ridden in the back of a driverless vehicle.
Weimos are not having a good time. In other news,
in Los Angeles where allegedly and on one square block
of Los Angeles, there are protests going on for something

(43:33):
that I don't even understand or care about. But there
are about five Waimo self driving robotaxis that were set
on fire during protest. I have no clue why, and
I bet people who set these things on fire still
don't have a clue because no, the driver can't get
out and fight back. I don't know these cars. Weaimo

(43:57):
uses one vehicles. They use a Jaguar Eye Pace. It's
an electric suv cost about seventy three thousand dollars. One
of the reasons, I think is because if an electric
car ever goes up in flames, you don't want to
be around it because it is thick, black smoke that
billows into the sky for hours on end. You just

(44:20):
can't have a fire truck come and just douse water
on These are battery fires. Maybe that's one of the
reasons why let's hope that doesn't happen. Let's hope that's
the nonsense stops stop at people. But one of the reasons,
and here in Austin, Man there are a number of
other companies already rolling things out. There's one called was

(44:40):
it Zeus or something amat Amazon's got one, and I
don't know I need a high tech text in robocar.
I mean, I'm the only company doesn't even have one
right now. One of the reasons that there's so many
in Texas is because of the lack of legal issues
that company need to jump through hoops to test and
utilize self driving car in California, which you know has

(45:02):
had them for a while, you have to go to
the DMV in California and you've got to get permits.
In Texas, you do not need a permit in Texas
as long as those vehicles passed the muster in the
standards of what a typical vehicle needs to drive on
this the highways and byways of Texas, companies are allowed
to actually test self driving cars and utilize them. Low

(45:24):
hanging fruit. Also, we don't have state income tax people,
greatest date in the world. Bring it on people. So
if you see and happen to roll by in Austin
one of these new Tesla things. But I want you
to think about this. These are just ordinary Teslas. Yes
there they're Teslas, but they're outfitted a little bit more
to be self driving. How about all the Teslas we've

(45:45):
been hearing about that are sitting on lots because they
haven't been sold. Tesla has maybe had some issues over
the past year with sales, stock has dropped and whatever
for whatever reason. But they've got a fleet, fleets and
fleets of fleets. Tesla's sitting there, you know, what they
could be doing. They could be programmed to drive off

(46:06):
their own parking lots and then come to your house
to pick you up. It's a world of robots, if
you think, just throwing that out there. Kind of world
we live in not an easy one right now. It's
very tough. Just take care of yourself, take care of
each other. Break right now. I am going to get
to some question as answers. Here's a question coming in
from an emailer right now. What hey, Garth, what photo

(46:28):
editing app do I use or do you recommend? That's
a great question. More and more people, man, we are
taking photo after photo after a photo you may want
to edit it for for more light, more saturation. Number
of them out there. There was one that actually was
just released and I just downloaded for the first time.
That normally costs money. It's totally free right now, totally free.

(46:49):
I'll give you two or three to choose from. We'll
saw some more of your calls, and here's email. I'm
a high tech next show. Be a few calls coming

(47:18):
in right now. Michael is the name. Ask me questions
Father's Day gifts. If you're narrowing something down, I am
here for you. I review most everything in the consumer
lifestyle people. I'll give you my thoughts three four six
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That is right. This comes from Jared. Jared is in Plano, Texas,
not far from actually where I'm doing the show this weekend.
What is up? Jared? Garth enjoyed listening to your show.
I just found it a few months ago. Oh good information.
I love your personality and enthusiasm. I assume that you
do a lot of photo taking with your Android phone.
You always talk about do you use a photo editing
app and which one would you recommend? Jared, thank you

(49:12):
for tuning in and finding the show. Tell your friends
and family they should also listen. I'm sure you listen
on talk radio eleven ninety here in the Dallas area.
I have no less than four or five photo editing
apps that I use on a pretty regular basis. I
shoot a lot of products that I review, and I

(49:34):
shoot a lot of videos. I use my phone actually
to what I do TV segments in Austin and Houston,
and I shoot a lot of those segments on my
actual phone. My phones now can provide a clarity and
a quality that eight ten, twenty thousand dollars TV camera

(49:55):
now can provide. And this one fits in your pocket too.
I edit it. I got it videos, which that was
not your question. Edit photos inherently whatever phone you use,
there is a built in photo editor. Some of them
are rudimentary that you're going to do, the saturation, the color.
You can crop them, you can mirror room, flip them

(50:17):
upside down, and some of them will just the lights.
Can you lighten somebody's face? Some have features that you
can make people thinner or fatter and remove wrinkles or whatever.
But the route. There are hundreds and not thousands of
photo editing apps. One I have used for a long
time to color correct, sometimes sharpen things up. That gives

(50:41):
me a lot of leeway. Maybe there's a photo where
only a part of the photo that I want lightened up,
So now I can kind of hit a dot or
circle it and lighten this and keep. It's called snap Seed,
totally free. Snap Seed's that's almost a go to one
on a regular basis. One that I just downloaded that

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I saw that was just made available a few months
ago for the iPhone, but only Android was just a
few days ago. Adobe just re re re released a
Photoshop app, Yes, real Photoshop. They released the mobile version

(51:27):
of Photoshop iPhone earlier this year. The Android is finally here.
If you're an Android user, why don't you try it
and download it right now? It's in beta. But the
best thing while it's in the beta the testing period
is totally free, totally free to use, and it kind
of does the same thing that the desktop version of

(51:48):
Adobe Photoshop and listen, Photoshop is the catch all tar
Photoshop was one of, if not the first to market.
Photoshop is not the easyest image editor to use, because
there's layers, there's masks, there's transformations, there's things that I
don't even know how to use. But I tell you what,
playing around with it for an hour or so, it's

(52:10):
kind of cool and there's a lot that it does
it for you because there's some AI built in, some
generative AI tools. Technically, this is about the third attempt
that Adobe has tried to do with photoshop on phones.
I remember they had a Photoshop Express. There was a
Photoshop Touch or something many many years ago. I'm kind
of liking this. I haven't done a lot of it,

(52:30):
but I don't know what they're going to charge for this,
when they're going to start charging for it. But if
you want to try it, try the Photoshop for Android.
It should work on most newer Android phones. You have
to have Android eleven or higher and that takes you
back four years or so, which is certainly fine. You
don't need a lot of extra memory. But it kind
of works. I mean, you know, there was a photo

(52:53):
of some people. I had you touch the photo and
it pulled the people out on a white background. Now
you actually put a layer. I can put a background
of a beach. I could put a background of the moon,
and I could put them on there. Normally you would
need some be pretty prolific in photo editing, which I'm
actually not. This kind of does it for you. So

(53:13):
that's one or two. Let me quickly look at my
phone so if I can think of anything those what
other photo editing things that I have? I like snapseed.
I like that thing. I use Google Google Photos good.
They have something called the Magic Editor. I have that one. Yeah,
those are those are the two or three that I recommend.
If anybody else has some that actually that you would recommend,

(53:35):
love to hear from you. Three four six twenty nine
textan But that's one of the ones that I can recommend.
I got another one over if I got another phone.
A little phone tip for you. I hopefully every phone
has a case on it. Mind does because the case
is going to allow you to help prevent ding's glass
breaks and whatever. I'm an android guy. If several androids

(53:58):
from several different mean factors that I test on a
regular basis, Okay, do not have an iPhone. The latest
iPhones have what's called mag safe. It's a magnetic circle
in the back. And if you've got a phone that's
I don't know what is it, at least three years
or more or something like that, it's maxim I really
didn't understand because I have an Android. I didn't ever
really understand or get into the mag safe thing. It's

(54:22):
a magnetic backing that can do a number of different things.
It could wirelessly, you could set itself and wirelessly charge.
You could take little tiny portable batteries. You know, some
people have a wallet or something like a credit card
holder back there. They make magnetic credit card and wallets
to fit on your mag Safe. They make little tiny batteries,

(54:44):
smaller batteries to give yourself some wireless charge. If you're
the They have car holders, you know, things that'll clip
onto your air conditioning thing and then you could magnetically
pop your phone on there. I really only got into
it about in last January. I got one of the
new Android phones I was testing. Company sent me androids

(55:05):
by Nature. Legally, they don't have mag safe built in.
I think it's exclusive to Apple at least, but under
that name. But there are phone cases that you could
put on regular other phones that have the round magnetic
circle that will wirelessly charge. And so I'm really kind
of into mag Safe chargers. And I bring this up
is because a buddy of mine, Doug Dougie, came over

(55:26):
to my house earlier this week and he walks in
and he's a big electric in dou He's really big.
He's an electrical engineer, mechanical engineer. He's brilliant guy. He
has a foldable phone. Little foldable phone doesn't have a
case on it. So he walks in, he sits on
my counter and he starts. He got it on Amazon.
I don't know what it was, but it was a

(55:48):
do it yourself mag safe kit. So for twenty one bucks,
he told me he bought the circular magnet that you
can buy. You can upgrade your phone to make it
mag say ready, And I'm like, Doug, Doug, Doug, Doug,
don't stick it on there yet. I've got like ten
of these things that companies have sent me, So let's
go shopping. So for his Father's Day President, I went

(56:11):
down in my garf goodie case in my closet and
I gave him one of these things and he put
it on there. So and he's going to return the
Amazon thing for twenty one dollars, but he's using it
too on things. But I bring it up. He goes,
this is it's a neat feature. It really really does.
And you don't now have to have an iPhone. You
can have any sort of phone and you can go
get either a case or you can just literally get

(56:34):
the manet. The magnet itself. One side of it sticks.
It's a sticky substance that sticks on your phone and
the outside of it is magnetic. And now you can
use the same things that Apple uses for the things.
And so again it's again could be a good Father's
Day present charges wirelessly charges always have these things. Again,

(56:54):
not giving you it. I'm not here to give you
one even brand of it. I'm just letting you know
some of the neat feature that are out there for you.
All right, little another Father's Day for you when we
come back, gonna speak with a gentleman who knows everything
about Search engine optimization. If you have a website, if
you want to gain traction, if you don't have SEO

(57:14):
already built into one of your marketing campaigns, will tell
you how simple it can be. And also some of
the companies, what type of companies industries really are kicking
it when it comes to SEO dot On the High
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(57:57):
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and also San Antonio. All you san Antonians, san Antonio Whites,

(58:17):
I don't know, whatever you are. You have good Mexican
food down there on WAI twelve hundred topics suggestions. A
few people asked me over the past month for some reason.
Maybe it's that time of year, summer, Some businesses are
getting kind of slow. They have time in their hands.
Should they upgrade their website or websites? Still relevant? Should
I just be doing social media? Websites are very irrelevant.
Let me help you out my website. I still think

(58:39):
it's very relevant. Just about a month and a half
ago some company found me and I got another gig
from it, and so it always should be updated and
out there, but also should have SEO search engine optimization.
It's been a while since I talked to a little SEO,
which means it's been a while since I talked to
Steve Winter, who runs a Stouns in Houston, who runs website.
He also from Big D. My man, how's your summer

(59:02):
been been outstanding?

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Had a lot of fun, just played a little golf
and Bandon Dunes up in Oregon. Had a great time.

Speaker 3 (59:09):
Let me check my spam email. I don't remember getting
that invitation.

Speaker 2 (59:14):
Yeah, yeah, don't worry. It's a lot of fun.

Speaker 1 (59:17):
But I say we average walking I think twelve to
fourteen miles a day, and that's hard on an old man.

Speaker 3 (59:23):
Well, define old baby, ain't that much older. Yeah, we
got to keep in shape. But the fact, the fact
is you do have time for golf because your your
company is cranking. You have got a team who just
does so many things. I communicate with them regularly because
anytime I need something maybe at not fixed but added,
or like I just added a few new radio stations
to my rate to you know, absolutely exactly. So I

(59:46):
emailed your staff and I'm think, oh, Steve's not here,
he's golfing, but we're more than happy to take care. Yeah,
so astounds. Obviously, you do create websites, you update websites,
you get them into the twenty first century. But a
website is really not truly working unless it is optimized
for search engines. And let's put it this way. When
I get asked about this, the first question I asked

(01:00:08):
when people ask me about SEO is I asked them
what type of company they have, what service are they in.
I'm going to ask you this. Look at all your clients,
the fittest downs. What are some of the better companies, services, jobs,
organizations that work well with SEO.

Speaker 1 (01:00:24):
Yeah, I'm glad to ask that because you know, when
we go in with a client, what we say it
all the time, we really want to be their best salesperson, okay,
and their cheapest salesperson.

Speaker 2 (01:00:33):
They're the ROI.

Speaker 1 (01:00:35):
And certain businesses absolutely in what we're doing, are better
for our services than others. And you know, your service
business is your h va C. You're plumbing, you know,
and even even service businesses you know, your accountants and
lawyers and things like that, where you know a lot
of them don't have salespeople. They're great engineers, great technicians,

(01:00:58):
great practitioners, but they don't have a sales force, right
and and their services are not inexpensive, okay, And so
leads and all. And an investment in a website in
SEO is huge, you know, we do it.

Speaker 2 (01:01:12):
You know. Pest control is another big one for us.

Speaker 1 (01:01:16):
Those are the companies that we really really see great
returns on and can truly make a difference. One of
one of my commercial HVAC clients is in my breakfast
club and he goes, I said, you know how any
things going.

Speaker 2 (01:01:27):
He goes.

Speaker 1 (01:01:28):
Man, he goes, you know, we they we've impacted his
business so much. He goes, but I almost need to
turn my website off right now. I am just getting slammed,
you know. But those are the ones we love to
hear from, right and and those are the results we're
looking for.

Speaker 2 (01:01:41):
Are those companies that.

Speaker 1 (01:01:42):
We can really really make an impact.

Speaker 2 (01:01:44):
And we try to be very honest.

Speaker 1 (01:01:46):
It's people that come to us, you know, they're trying
to launch like a new clothing brand or something that's
almost more of a viral or a luck or you've
really got to get out there and get you know,
those folks out there that have all the followings.

Speaker 2 (01:02:01):
Whatever to try to promote a brand.

Speaker 1 (01:02:03):
Because you're competing against Lululemon and you know, the Gap
and all these other different companies that have been out
there forever. Very hard to do. But local service businesses,
serving in the community or whatever you're not. We can
do national brands. We've done some really cool national stuff too,

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But you talk about the ones that are the quick,
easy returns. You know, are these service businesses that have
a certain geography with within which they work and going
after those and just seeing some fabulous results.

Speaker 3 (01:02:36):
Steve Winter joining me. He is with astounds as t
O U n d Z dot com. For some reason,
you were interested in upgrading your website getting se O.
I certainly can valiche because I've worked with this company
for many years. It's funny you got an anecdotal story
about when SEO works well, it certainly proves your point.
But when it doesn't work well, Steve, it also proves

(01:02:56):
a point. Let me tell you, so, I got a
friend of mine. She owns her own event company. So
she runs events, big weddings, corporate events and wedther and
she and things like that. She realizes on her website
she is seoed it out all right. Well, her website
was down for like a week and a half in
April or May. She noticed the lack of incoming calls

(01:03:21):
that she got from people asking for proposals solely because
her website was down, but her SEO nothing was hitting
right there. And so it just shows you how important
how vital is the businesses right now, whether it works
whether it doesn't work. You got to have the thing running.

Speaker 2 (01:03:36):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (01:03:36):
And the other thing we ask our clients, I mean,
you know, we want them engaged with us. We like
some of our clients. We literally get sales reports from them,
and we know what is you know, when when things
are up and down or whatever, we're looking at it.
Surprisingly enough, I had one of my clients. I had
been trying to get together with them forever. They in

(01:03:59):
the asphalt business, and they were rebuilding up. They had
moved their warehouses and other things and just wouldn't really
get with us. And I'm sitting there talking to them,
and they said, well, we may go to another web company.
We haven't really been getting many leads. And I'm going,
I'm scratching my head, and I go and I send
them a list of all the leads we had been getting. Well,
they had made some changes on security on their email

(01:04:21):
or whatever else, and all of our leads were going
to spam. They realized they had missed probably two million dollars.

Speaker 2 (01:04:28):
In leads that we had generated.

Speaker 1 (01:04:31):
And and you know, just because we didn't have regular meetings,
and I had tried to meet with them and they
were too busy. And yet I mean, you talk about
wasted money and all that was crazy and it broke
my heart to hear this, you know, and here they've
lost two million dollars in business that we that we
had been generating in the background that they didn't know about.

Speaker 3 (01:04:53):
It's great, it's crazy stories like this, I'll ask you know.
Actually I just got to hold them. They've got an
email over here. SEO is the subject coming in. This
is from James. James is in Parentland. He wants to
know how difficult is it to set up and start
the whole SEO process, which is a very good question
because I bet a lot of people think, oh my gosh,
this is going to take further today.

Speaker 2 (01:05:14):
Yeah, it's not hard at all. You know.

Speaker 1 (01:05:17):
We have a very simple questionnaire that we send that
ask them. You know, as I say all the times,
if it takes more than twenty minutes or a glass
of wine, you spent too much time on it.

Speaker 2 (01:05:27):
But it asks just basics on you know.

Speaker 1 (01:05:29):
Where they're wanting to show up, what their geography is,
where their service areas, what do they think their keywords are,
who do they think their competitors are? And then we
go do all the analysis and look at it and
come back with the solution. And you know, truthfully, with
AI these days and everything else. We used to have
our clients we would want them to help us or whatever,
or write a lot of their marketing content and stuff

(01:05:51):
like that. Today we write most of the content and
do ninety eight percent of the work and so you know,
it just takes a little bit of time, and you know,
review as much as they want to. Some of our
clients review it very detailed. Others don't pay any attention
to it at all. They look at us as the experts,
and we go and do everything this needed simple. Is that?

Speaker 3 (01:06:14):
All right? People want to get up contact with you
obviously at stounds with a Z dot com phone number anything.

Speaker 1 (01:06:19):
Uh yeah, I mean it's all there on astounds dot
com I cell number two eight one eight eight twenty twenty.

Speaker 3 (01:06:25):
His name is Steve Winner astounds dot com. It is
all se O all the time. A man stay cool
out there, Hit him, hit him straight and long, and
I appreciate your time.

Speaker 2 (01:06:32):
Hook them horns.

Speaker 3 (01:06:33):
Look, I like this guy. Hook them horns. Count down
eighty one days they'll kick off people. All right, Michael Garfield,
I got to get back an air conditioning at cocktail
time here on the High Tech Texting Show, Don't Go Anywhere.

(01:07:12):
Winding down the special Father's Day weekend show. Michael is
the name, whatever your name is, Thank you for listening.
Happy Father's Day to you, your dad, your granddad, your
great granddad, your father's to be. If you want to
email me when the show is over, give me a
comment on x hi Tech Texan Hi Tech Texting dot com. Whatever.

(01:07:32):
Next week, we're gonna do the difficult. If you didn't
like your gift you got for Father's Day, call let
me know. I'm more than happy to tell you what
to trade it in for. We're still about two weeks
away before I review and do my little TV segment
on robotic lawnmowers PI. That could be a good Father's
Day gift. Sorry'm a little late on that. I'm not

(01:07:53):
gonna give out the phone number anymore because we are
winding it down. We are quick countdown. We are one
year away, almost exactly this week from the World Cup
humming to coming to the United States, but coming to Texas.
Two locations in Texas. Dallas actually is at Arlington. We've

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got at and T Stadium and in RG Stadium. In Houston, which,
by the way, for all you soccer nerds, uh football nerds,
coming extra When the games are played here across North
America next year, they will be played in stadiums like
Kansas City Chiefs Stadium at and T Stadium in our

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G Stadium. They will not be referred to as those
with title sponsors. FIFA, the governing body of World Cup.
They have strange laws when it comes to sponsorship unless
a company is a partner high level partner with FIFA,

(01:08:58):
no names, no logos, no anything will be mentioned. So,
as of right now, is a true story. The instead
of playing an eighteen and T stadium in our lilingketoonn
or Jerry World the the World Cup six seven games
that will be in the Dallas area will be played
at Dallas Stadium. Houston will not be played at in
our G Stadium. They will be played at Houston Stadium.

(01:09:21):
The final match will not be It'll be in the
Meadowlands at not MetLife Field or whatever it's called. It
will be at New York, New Jersey Stadium. I am
not kidding you. I bring this up because I saw something.
Where is this when they got some press release over here?

(01:09:42):
Oh yeah, they are every every stadium will have grass.
Not just grass, It'll be elite grass. It is high
tech grass. That's why they send it to me. Twelve
US stadiums, twelve different turf strategies, from synthetic blends to
ultra durable b to grass. There are gonna be GPS

(01:10:03):
guided sand layers, twenty eight miles of a heated pipes.
This is the one that's going to be in Philadelphia,
growing lights to simulate sunderlight, sunlight under closed roofs. Are
they going to have California baits? Since Amelia, I'm not
I'd even know, and I thought, you know what this is?
Do you know who's bag? This would be for all
of you if you've lived in Houston area for years

(01:10:24):
and years. One of my best friends, Randy Lemon. Randy
used to host the garden Line Big Gardener, sadly tragically
quickly passed away two and a half years ago. Right now,
I miss him every single day. This would be a
story of the Randy and I would both cover technology
based grass. So be on the lookout if you were
a FIFA World Cup fan coming to the United State,

(01:10:46):
it's gonna be pretty big. I know the seven matches
going to be in Houston alone. It's gonna It's got
like seven Super Bowls. It's going to be big one.
More sports notes. Good luck to us all the Texas base,
certainly Dallas based golfer in the US Open this week
if they made the cut. Scotty Scheffler just tearing up
the golf roll right now. Did you see with Scotty

(01:11:08):
Scheffler deleted his Venmo account. They talk about, you know, Venmo,
it's a new technologically based way to actually send money
to somebody. I have Venmo, PayPal, the whole thing. Scotty
deleted his Venmo account. Do you know why? This is
a sad state of golf and a sad state of betting,
And I do like betting on sports. He deleted his

(01:11:31):
Venmo account because he would hear from fans whether they
have a financial benefit or anything in their outcome of
betting on him. So, if somebody bet on Scotty to
win and they want a good amount of money out
of their kindness with the heart some rando would Venmo

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Scotty some money as a thanks for helping me win.
But sadly, if they lost on Scotty, he would get
nasty messages asking Scotty to pay them back. That's not it.
That's not good. I mean, this goes back. I mean
there's a lot of negative interaction with people in Betters too.

(01:12:14):
Last month, was it the Houston astrost pitcher Lance mccullors.
He received death threats online from a fan from a
better who was frustrated and drunk when he lashed out
on social media. Just, you know, just people, just be
smart about this. Things, Be smart about this things. You
could do better than that, so could Scotty. Let's go Scotty. Also,

(01:12:35):
all you Android fans out there, and I know there
are so many because I'm an Android guy. Also, the
latest operating system, Android sixteen is here. I get this
a lot. Yes, every time iPhones launch a new operating system,
Hey should I do it?

Speaker 4 (01:12:53):
Now?

Speaker 3 (01:12:54):
Do I? Do I have to download it? Michael? Should I?
I personally don't have a problem with upgrading to the
operating system as early as I can. I have my
phone set on push notifications. It'll let me know, Hey,

(01:13:14):
there's a new operating system. You're ready to download this thing?
And I'm just going to go, Hey, Yes, I mean
I think there's before an operating system is launched. There
is a lot of testing. There's a lot of beta
program testing that anybody can actually get into if you
sign up for it. I really don't play with the
beta I wait till it's officially launched. Point is Android

(01:13:35):
sixteen just announced it. It is rolling out. If you have
a Google Pixel phone, you're getting that update first. Obviously,
you got to dance with the one who brung you
or eat your own dog foods. Since Google is Android,
Android is Google, you know, then they make phones. They're
gotta give it to them. So all the other Android
manufacturers you're gonna have to wait a little look at

(01:13:56):
some of the upgrades over here, anxious to try. You're
gonna get more streamlined notifications. So if you're like waiting
for food delivery to get your house, instead of opening
your delivery app every five minutes, they're gonna give you
live updates to keep you informed in real time if
you care about that.

Speaker 4 (01:14:18):
Uh.

Speaker 3 (01:14:19):
I set clearer and simpler calling with hearing devices hearing aids.
There's there's actually bluetooth. There's hearing aids that have Bluetooth
that will automatically connect to your phone. Actually, I know
someone who uses it. And actually they're pretty cool. They're
gonna make that a little bit more easier access in

(01:14:41):
working with that, there's gonna be better security with a
single tap of your phone, which is good. Security is
always goods only if they need to enhance security. Nothing
too bad about that. That are connection with tablets using decks,
decks pretty cool. That's something that mirrors your phone to

(01:15:02):
a tablet in computers. Anyway, when I download this, I
don't have a pixel. Google. Nice to meet you if
you do get the Android sixteen anxious to hear your
thoughts on that. But at the end of the day, no,
I'm not too wary of downloading these things after they've
been through beta. Within it about a day or two,
they're generally having up updated features. So my guess is
the over under is about probably four days before Android

(01:15:25):
sixteen point one or sixteen point one is released, and
says out other than that, sounds like I got to
wrap up this. I got to wrap up the show. People,
get out of here. It's only a two hour show
that we've been doing it pretty much for almost half
my life. Thank you for doing it in Callumrie. You're
not a dad, but tell your dad happy Father's dat
you for everybody who celebrates Father's games, everyone who's missing

(01:15:46):
your dad thinking of you. Thank you to all my
Father's Day wishes, great singing and being with my dad.
My kids also here up in the Dallas area. We'll
be back next week, probably from Houston, or you know what,
I could take the show on the road. Hey, if
someone wants to invite me to their call Rotoh House
beach House in California, no prob I am there with you.
Find me at high Tech Texan dot com all the

(01:16:07):
social media. My name is Michael. I have a great
week's stay cool my people, and I will talk to
you next week. But right now, my Father's Day special
for my Father's Day weekend is over.